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This is the updated version of the last update that trashed performance and broke networks?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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No, this will be the next update to trash performance and break networks.
The current version to do that is the silly-named, "Moment 3". 
TTFN - Kent
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Aptos is a sans-serif font that also comes in monospaced and serifed varieties. And millions will continue to use Arial for everthing
And millions more (including me) couldn't tell the difference between Arial, Calibri, and this.
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Don't be a snob; Comic Sans all the way
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uncanny ? incestuous ? ... uncanny ... see footnote
https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-chatbots-replace-human-subjects-behavioral-experiments
"Now, researchers are considering AI’s ability to impersonate human subjects in fields such as psychology, political science, economics, and market research. No one is yet suggesting that chatbots can completely replace humans in behavioral studies. But they may act as convenient stand-ins in pilot studies and for designing experiments, saving time and money. Language models might also help with experiments that would be too impractical, unethical, or even dangerous to run with people. “It’s a really interesting time,” says Ayelet Israeli, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School who believes the models’ impact on behavioral research could amount to a “revolution.” “Some of these results are just astonishing.”
footnote : before modern meaning
"1590s, in a now-obsolete meaning "mischievous, malicious;" also in 17c., "careless, incautious; unreliable, not to be trusted," from un- (1) "not" + canny (q.v.) in its old Scots and Northern English sense of "skillful, prudent, lucky" (it is a doublet of cunning).
Canny had also a sense of "superstitiously lucky; skilled in magic." In Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1900) the first sense of uncanny as used in Scotland and the North is "awkward, unskilful; careless; imprudent; inconvenient." The second is "Unearthly, ghostly, dangerous from supernatural causes ; ominous, unlucky ; of a person : possessed of supernatural powers".
From 1773, uncanny appears in popular literature from the North (Robert Fergusson, Scott), with reference to persons and in a sense of "not quite safe to trust or deal with through association with the supernatural." By 1843 it had a general sense in English of "having a supernatural character, weird, mysterious, strange." (OED notes this as "Common from c 1850"; Borges considers it untranslatable but notes that German unheimlich answers to it.)
The Scottish writers also use it with the meanings "unpleasantly hard; dangerous, unsafe."
also from 1590s
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Google is adding some new features to its Bard AI chatbot, including the ability for Bard to speak its answers to you and for it to respond to prompts that also include images. The chatbot is also now available in much of the world, including the EU. Ignore it if it asks if you want to play a game
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Does that mean emojis or can I turn on the camera and flip it the bird?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design We'll do that in the next sprint
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Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing. What does not kill us, makes us write better code (hopefully)
That hopefully is doing a lot of work there.
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to set the mind in the cage of the body free ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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In an attempt to improve workflow between programmers and other departments, some companies bring IT teams, security staff, and even customer-service reps into the coding process. Because we all know many coders have a lot of empathy
Hopefully this link works - it does a silly Cloudflare check, but it works for me in multiple browsers.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ompanies bring IT teams, security staff, and even customer-service reps into the coding process
With that mix, I understand the need for the security staff. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Worked fine for me in Chrome this morning.
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I'm a hardcore advocate of such programs and things, but truly not because of the self-interest of empathetic understanding, that's just a bonus. It helps just about anyone in any role do a better job at it because there are so few jobs anymore that don't somehow involve a computer somewhere.
I think GE's CEO (and others, who've said/attempted similar) generally have it right.
Quote: every new hire at the 305,000-person company will learn to code. “It doesn't matter whether you are in sales, finance or operations,” he wrote on LinkedIn on Aug. 4. “You may not end up being a programmer, but you will know how to code
Especially now moving towards AI eliminating supplementing and multiplying the need for programmers by lowering the bar... It will be even more important that everyone starts to grok just wtf is going on with all these 1's and 0's that literally impact so many facets of so many lives on the planet every day.
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Totally agree with your sentiment. But some employees will fail to learn how to code, it's inevitable.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Over the past six months, there has been a significant increase in malware attacks targeting Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Server as an intrusion method. Hackers ... uh, find a way
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😲had huge shock, thinking I had been for years thinking I knew what VBA short for, the horror of read Virtual Basic for Applications, wtf, and then checking myself that no, this writer just goofed.
yeah, and now I also just realised article about MSSQL, not MySql. Makes so much more sense 🤣🤣
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KB5028185, the 'Moment 3' update, is proving seriously problematic for some users Stop me if you've heard this one before...
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According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in June 2023. You know what this means!
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Indeed! 2024 will the Year of Desktop Linux!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You know what this means!
That that one firm lies out of its *,or that we are living in an alternate reality so far unlike our own that we might as well be dead?
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Just like restarting a router fixes network problems (most of the time), reinstalling Windows is considered a universal cure for most software issues and bugs. You break it, you fix it
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What happens when Windows Update is itself the problem?
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